Ukrainian Catholic Church Australia, New Zealand and Oceania

Eliza Hamilton was in her seventies, and staying with her daughter at the latter’s home in Washington DC. She was in the backyard with her nephew, when the maid brought out to her a calling-card. It was James Monroe, the ...

In today’s society it is not unusual to hear about the forbidding of the “Our Father” being banned in certain places. Nativity scenes, Crosses and other religious symbols are removed or forbidden. All this flies in the face of the ...

As has been our custom over the last many years, the clergy of the Ukrainian Eparchy gathered in Millgrove for the annual retreat and soborchyk of our Eparchy. Bishop Ken, Eparch of New Westminster in Canada, led the retreat. This ...

“Soborchyk” is an Ukrainian word which means a small sobor or assembly. It is a church term which means consultation or discussion. About 25 priests, deacons, sisters, and wives of clergy along with Bishop Peter and Bishop Ken met in ...

On Thursday, 7th June 2018, Fr. Taras Gorpynyak of our parish in Wayville, South Australia, was elevated to the level of Canon in our Eparchy in a ceremony at Pallotti College in Millgrove, Victoria. Read more: Fr. Taras honoured on ...

We warmly welcome Bishop Ken Nowakowski to Australia and the North Melbourne Parish. Bishop Ken Nowakowski is the Eparch of our faithful in the Eparchy of New Westminster in British Columbia, Canada. He is very active in our Synod. He ...

On 27th May 1993 in St. George’s Cathedral in Lviv, Patriarch Myroslav Lubachivsky ordained Taras Gorpynyak to the priesthood. In 1999, Fr. Taras arrives with his family to serve in Australia. He spends some time in Melbourne, then Sydney, and ...

If all agree to a lie – a new ‘truth’ has suddenly been discovered. Without the questioning of such ‘truths’, individuals, societies, and generations of men and women, can base their lives on illusions, – writes Dr. Andrew Thomas Kania in Church ...

Christianity and the church are under attack. In Australia the recent euthanasia debate and the same sex marriage discussions have all put focus on religion itself. We live in a world of secularism where people are increasingly materialistic, and self-centred. ...

3rd -10th May 2018, Bishop Peter Stasiuk attended the Australian Catholic Bishops’ Conference (ACBC) at Mary McKillop Place in North Sydney. This is the 25th year that Bishop Peter has attended this yearly conference. There are various commissions which the ...

13th May 2018 was “Mothers’ Day” in Australia. The whole country came out to celebrate and thank mothers in many diverse ways. The more important moments were held within individual families. Our Ukrainian Catholic Church chose to thank our mothers ...